Math 9 Integers

Subject: Math 9

Unit: Numbers and Operations and Analysis
Topic: Integers

Objectives: Evergreen Curriculum

I would use this website in a introduction activity to integers. After perfoming a pre-assessment on integers I would create 4 groups made up of all the students and designate roles to each student. The interesting integers website contains instructions for each group to investigate integers by completing four activities:


Activity One: Finding out about negative numbers in the real world.

Activity Two: How can you show that the rules for adding and subtracting integers are true?
Activity Three: Sharing what you have learned

Activity Four: Putting what you have learned to work.

Each Activity will take one day and could be used as a set.

The activities help students see the real-life applications of integers. The website also includes rubrics to assess each activity.

Website: Interesting Integers

I believe this website would help students conjecture real life applications of integers. This will also help with students attitudes and beliefs towards matheatics because they see direct use for it and will therefore be engaged to learn about integers.

Math 9 Geometry

Subject:Math 9
Unit: Geometry/Measurement
Topic: Angles, Lines and Line Segments
Objectives:
Evergreen Curriculum

This website is an interactive discovery activity that using questions, protractor and angles as a way for students to deduct their own conjectures about specific angles.
I would use this website as an introduction activity or set to my first lesson on the unit Geometry/Measurement in the Math 9 curriculum. The website provides 20 activities. Students should be able to discovery the relationships found in each activity and will be able to deduct their own theorems through pattern recognition. The activities help students conjecture theorems such as:
- Vertically opposite angles are equal
-All angles in a triangle ass up to 180 degrees
- All angles in a rectangle add up to 360 degrees
- Corresponding interior angles are equal
- Alternate interior angles are equal
- Angle of a straight line is 180 degrees


WebSite: Angle Activities

Physics 30 Newtons Laws of Motion

Subject: Physics 30
Unit:Kinematics and Dynamics
Topic:Newtons laws of motion
Objectives: Evergreen Curriculum
When a net force acts on an object, it accelerates in the direction of the net force. (Newton's second law)
The acceleration is directly proportional to the force for a constant mass:
The acceleration is inversely proportional to the mass if the force is constant:
If an object is accelerating there must be a net force acting on the object in the direction of the acceleration.
The relationship between the SI units for force and the corresponding fundamental units can be illustrated from Newton's second law.
(i.e., 1 N = 1 kg m/s2)

Website: Newtons Second Law

This website contains an applet that has a table of values for a force and mass. After selecting one of each it will calculate what the acceleration of the specific object will be. Through pattern recognition students will be able to conjecture the proportionality between the parameters or the formula F= MA.

I would use this applet as a set to a lesson when teaching Newton's second law of motion. Students would be able to experiment by using different values and begin to develop a conjecture through pattern recognition. I believe they might be able to remember the formula better and apply the formula the first time they see it. Instead of just having them copy down the formula. I believe experential learning has the greatest impact on someone's memory.

Math 9 Percent

Subject: Math 9
Unit: Ratios and Proportions
Topic: Percents
Objectives:
Learning Objective
R-21solve real-life percent problems about
percent increase and decrease
compound interest, service charges
Website: Math Playground - Percent Shopping

This is an ineractive website that guides students through application questions refering to percent increase and decrease regarding retail. Students will be able to relate to the questions because they are real life applications.

I would use this website as an assignment on percent application questions. I would create a handout that students would need to fill out with the questions they create. So I can assess their learning for that particular day. The website provides helpful hints for the students that are struggling with these particular questions.

This website would enhance students learning because it is engaging and provides real life application that students will be able to apply outside the classroom

Math C-30 Conics unit

Subject: Math C30
Unit: Conics
Topic: Ellipse
Objectives in the curriculum this website will assist:
Foundational Objective
To become aware of the various conic sections and to demonstrate skill in graphing and writing equations of the conic sections
Learning Objective
B.3.b)
To sketch the graph of an ellipse.
Website: Analyze Math

I would have my students use this applet as an exploration activity on ellipses. After teaching the equation of an ellipse


I would have students discover how changing the different parameters (such as h, k, a, and b) changes the graph. Also students would have already learned the equation and graph of a circle they will be able to link the simliarities of the equations and graphs. I would have students go through the activity on the website that guides the students to conjecture the patterns between the graph and equation. I would have students write about what they have discovered and conjectured. This applet is a timesaver, compared to the pencil and paper method. The applet allows the students to view many graphs with different parameters in seconds.

This would enhance student learning because they are able to take ownership of their own learning by using experiential learning instead of direct instruction.

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